Re: A little help for GWorkspace

[Enrico Sersale]

On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Helge Hess wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> in some Unixes (AFAIK in Irix) you have a 'file/directory change
> notification service'. You basically have API to let the OS send you
> notifications if some files/dirs changed.
> 
> Somewhat like:
> 
>   [fileManager watchPath:@"/tmp"
>              observer:self
>              selector:@selector(pathChanged:)];
> 
> This could be done using a daemon which implements a timer and sends out
> notifications (eg using NSDistributedNotificationCenter). One advantage
> would be, that this daemon only needs to run stat once if multiple
> applications are watching the same path.
> 
> Greetings
>   Helge
> 

I'm wondering if this daemon could be also linked with some X libs and
libWMaker to get and distribute notifications from the window manager...